The nominee for Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, says the Justice Department should be independent of partisan politics. He says he would defend the Constitution. He says he would have no problem looking the president in the eye and telling him "no" if the president asked him to do an end-around the law.

The nerve of this guy! After all the work Alberto Gonzales did in politicizing the office of Attorney General, and now Mukasey has the audacity to calmly explain that under his guidance, the Justice Department will go in a new direction, a path free from the clutches of Bushie politics.

W will be getting mighty lonely on his scooter without an attorney general licking his boots from the sidecar.

There were no winners in this entry's "Are You Smart-Aleckier Than a Cartoonist?!" contest, but you can see from the previous toon tease what my model was for Dubya's minty scooter.